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“Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.”
Source : Richard Ellmann (2013). “Oscar Wilde”, p.510, Vintage
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“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.”
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“I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.”
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“The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it.”
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“The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.”
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“The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.”
Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.
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“Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.”
Source : Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
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“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”
Source : John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
